Are We Spiritual by Nature?

By:  Andreas Moritz
Posted:  December 8, 2011 — updated 2016
Book excerpt:  It’s Time to Come Alive

According to the latest opinion polls, 82 percent of Americans believe in the healing power of personal prayer. Before long, scientists will equate this healing power with the placebo response – a healing response in the body that is triggered by one’s belief in a particular drug or treatment. Having faith in someone who can accomplish anything, even cure a cancer, is the intuitive knowledge that he or she would be there when you are in need. This is called unerring faith. To pray means putting one’s attention on and moving that infinite power, love or God energy in a desired direction.

The limbic system, which is common to all primates, plays a major role in emotions, sexual pleasure, deeply felt memories and, as research has shown, even in spiritual experiences. The ability to have such experiences has a neuro-anatomical basis, according to Rhawn Joseph, a neuroscientist at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center in California. So are we spiritual by nature?

By identifying with more than just your body or the physical reality, you enter the unbounded world of consciousness within yourself. Everyone who will stay on the planet for the next 10-15 years will make this profound shift. Many of us are already going through this transformational process. Since the unbounded cannot be divided or even appear as an event in space or time, it is everywhere, meaning in us as well.

By becoming aware of yourself and the spirit of nature, you become automatically spiritual. Our body cannot function without being connected to that supreme intelligence that controls it at every moment. Some people give it a personal touch and call it God, thus, it becomes a religious experience. Others feel deeply connected to nature and simply feel like ‘coming home’. Deep down within ourselves we are all spiritual by nature, whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not. Life is simply not possible without contact to our non-physical origin. The spirit, regardless of what we name it, is our essential nature, and the body is the tool to make us aware of it.

For as long we live, we are likely to believe in ourselves to some degree. Otherwise, we would end our lives. Diseases and difficulties are merely the signals indicating that we are not properly connected with, or don’t trust in, that spirit or super intelligence within. Being ‘out of touch’ with our higher self, the body’s DNA begins to write false programs that may lead to physical deficiencies and more confusion about our true identity. This is the beginning of a crisis in life, which may manifest in the form of an accident or a disease.